hallo ashley, seems to me that we could peel this back a bit... you said 'creating such a field' and i think at least part of your answer might lie in distinguishing between what we are actually creating and what has only to be noticed and articulated. we might say that the 'collective' and 'fields' parts of this already are, and have only to be pointed out in ways that friends will understand. 'leadership' too, to the extent that everyone is already 'leading his or her own life', already is, so the action here might be stretching, expanding in response to invitation. practice is probably the thing that is most 'created' as i'm thinking about it now. what folks agree to practice together would seem to bound and define the field and what anyone understands as 'this' collective. to the extent that invitation defines practice, then writing an invitation, articulating a practice, serves to define or bound some part of the larger 'field' or 'collective' that becomes gathering or group, as people demonstrate understanding by actually showing up. to me it's a bit like the whole of everything, the Collective or the Field is a big bowl of soup and any invitation or practice (including "leadership" practice) is some sort and shape of ladle we fashion and use to scoop what we call this or that 'field', 'field of practice', and 'collective', as in 'collective leadership'... collective here being bigger than one's individual life leadership and still always smaller, in the sense of 'more local', maybe more locally understandable, than always everywhere but not always recognizable Collective leadership.<br>
<br>yikes. <br><br>not sure if that's an answer or now, but it certainly was a small adventure here. <grin> thanks, m<br><br>p.s. seems the thing to do, still, more toward answering your question, is more about noticing. especially noticing something about what i've just described. and how might this happen? well, i think that's a bit of what i've seen harrison do when he says something like "look around this circle (in opening) and notice that this particular group, this particular (collective) gathering has never happened before and will never happen in quite this way again..." this implies a 'something' (collective? field?) from which we all came and to which we will all return... so it acknowledges the larger everywhere by noticing the immediate and local here AND by simply noticing that it is temporary. then, in the same way, the opening circle is the 'collective' and the breakouts are the little local places.... but putting this local collective in 'perspective' seems the key, and as usual, harrison seems to get it done in 2-3 sentences! it seems, then, that pretty much everything after that, the group can do for itself, as a (more) conscious manifestation *of* the 'collective leadership' you 're after in the first place. <br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 12:01 PM, ashley cooper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail.easilyamazed@gmail.com">mail.easilyamazed@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote">Hello,<br><br>I'm curious... What is important when inviting a group into collective leadership? What first comes to your mind as being of essence when creating such a field of practice and a structure for action? Maybe a principle comes to mind, specific practices, resources that have good ideas, your cherished opinions... I'm interested in what pops up first!<br>
<br>With much gratitude,<br>Ashley<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#888888">P.s. Sorry for the duplicates to those that are also on the Art of Hosting listeserv<br><br>-- <br>
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